Issues in the Systematic Assessment of Quality of Life

Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers' Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-22

  Cummins, Robert A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental variation; Instrument content; Multiplicative composites; Quality of life; Society norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956271982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773697.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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